IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Spottswood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974MN1451823
  • User Pedon ID: S1974MN1451823
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL2
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1823
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82789
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 45.3711509
  • Std. Longitude: -94.2675705
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 122N
  • Range: 29W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 180 feet north and 1060 feet east of the southwest corner of SE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN145—Stearns
  • MLRA: 91A—Central Minnesota Sandy Outwash
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FER—Fergus Falls, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN145—Stearns County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45094-C3—Kimball, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Charles Saari
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: U of MN lab data only
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Spottswood
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/24/2016
  • Classifier - T. Neuenfeldt
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxonomic Class - Frigid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 0 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/9/1974
  • Classifier - Charles Saari
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glaciofluvial deposits over outwash
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/9/1974 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

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    344

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    315

    700

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    150

    6

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); silt loam; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter. Lab sample # MN182301
    E1—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); loam; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter. Lab sample # MN182302
    E2—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); silt loam; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter. Lab sample # MN182303
    EB—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); silt loam; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter. Lab sample # MN182304
    Bt1—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); silt loam; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter. Lab sample # MN182305
    Bt2—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); silt loam; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter. Lab sample # MN182306
    Bt3—74 to 89 centimeters (29.1 to 35.0 inches); loam; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter. Lab sample # MN182307
    2BC—89 to 112 centimeters (35.0 to 44.1 inches); coarse sand; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter. Lab sample # MN182308
    2C—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); gravelly coarse sand; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, pH meter. Lab sample # MN182309